Jos has over 20 years experience in building software and telecom companies and divisions in the European market. He started his career selling AutoCad and training AutoCad users. He took the MD role in Germany, Netherlands and Belgium at 3Communications, a leading provider of credit card payphones and terminals in Europe. Thereafter he co-founded InTouch Telecom in Belgium, acquired by GTS. Jos was instrumental in bringing @Home to Europe, cementing the partnership between @Home and Palet Kabelcom and CasTel, two of the leading cable companies in The Netherlands. As CEO of Palet Kabelcom Jos helped engineering the merge with CasTel into Essent Kabelcom, that quickly evolved into one of the largest cable operators and ISP’s in Europe. He then joined Alta Berkeley in London as a venture partner, where he took the position as Chairman of Castify Networks, successful provider of Enterprise Acceleration Software to Fortune 500 companies. He is a graduate of the Free University Amsterdam.